Data on departments (by Commission)

This dataset includes data on departments of the Commission, including Directorates-General and service departments (1958-2021). There is one observation per department per Commission. This dataset provides a snapshot of each Commission at the time that the first directory is published. For Commissions that come into office early in a year, the first directory is usually published later that year. For Commissions that come into office late in a year, the first directory is usually published early the next year. The exception is the Prodi Commission. The data for this Commission comes from the earliest available directory.

departments_by_commission

Format

A data frame with 18 variables:

key_id

Numeric. An ID number that uniquely identifies each observation. Indicates the default sort order for the dataset.

commission_id

Numeric. The ID number that uniquely identifies each Commission. See the commissions dataset.

commission

String. The name of the Commission. See the commissions dataset.

start_date

Date. The start date of the Commission.

start_year

Numeric. The start year of the Commission.

start_month

Numeric. The start month of the Commission.

start_day

Numeric. The start day of the Commission.

end_date

Date. The end date of the Commission.

end_year

Numeric. The start year of the Commission.

end_month

Numeric. The start month of the Commission.

end_day

Numeric. The end day of the Commission.

department_type_id

Numeric. An ID number that uniquely identifies the type of the department. Coded 1 for Directorate-General and 2 for Service department. See the variable department_type.

department_type

String. The type of the department. Either Directorate-General or Service department.

department_id

Numeric. An ID number that uniquely identifies each department. See the departments dataset.

department_name

String. The name of the department.

department_code

String. The common abbreviation of the department. Coded Not applicable of there is not an abbreviation for the department. Coded None for all Commissions prior to the Prodi Commission.

policy_area

String. The name of the policy area. See the policy_areas dataset.

current_department_name

String. The name of the current department. See the departments dataset.